To design a God that would rather have us do our will than Him do His will is to design a God that is not in the bible
God did not create evil but willed that it exists
Why does evil exist? Westminster Confession of Faith 3.1:
God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
All that God decrees and all that God providentially brings to pass is all to the praise of His glory.
Therefore the existence of evil in the end is to the praise of His glory
We wouldn’t know what wrath was and we would not know what mercy was if there were no sin
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From the 2008 Ligonier West Coast Conference
